[timmac]

I would not say that the high price of food is the main problem here in Haiti,, there goverment has been broke and corupt for many years now,, presidents in the past have been removed, killed or just up and left over the many problems in this country, high oil and food is just showing how bad there goverment, economy and social problems really are,, high oil is going to cause problems with corupt and bad economy goverments first before it starts it's toll on wealther goverments.........Haiti has had simaler problems like this in the past............

[CarlosFerreira]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'I') would not say that the high price of food is the main problem here in Haiti,, there goverment has been broke and corupt for many years now,, presidents in the past have been removed, killed or just up and left over the many problems in this country, high oil and food is just showing how bad there goverment, economy and social problems really are,, high oil is going to cause problems with corupt and bad economy goverments first before it starts it's toll on wealther goverments.........Haiti has had simaler problems like this in the past............

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'T')here's nothing like the specter of people eating mud cakes to rally all
the sociopaths at PO.com to a thread. Well done. The idea of anyone
having to eat mud evokes compassion in most of us, but glee in others.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('perdition79', 'I') can understand the mud cakes as a food source.

Occasionally, at the fertilizer plants I service, I haul limestone -- calcium carbonate. It's an ingredient in animal feed, as well as a component of these Haitian mud cakes being discussed. From what I've observed, it's a pretty good food source. The caked-up lime dust around the silos is food for palmetto bugs, and these bugs are twice the size of normal palmetto bugs. They're almost the size of a mouse, without a tail, just from eating limestone.

When it comes to survival, gastronomy is pretty far down on the priorities list.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I') take calcium pills but I'd hardly eat them for dinner!

[section451]

Should we start getting worried about Peak Mud ?

[steam_cannon]

A couple videos

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOhI79CiBUM]Video: A family makes cakes from mud in Haiti
Ingredients: Mud (boil first?), Water, Salt, Lemon, Butter

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This has been a practice as far I can remember in Haiti. The mud the
people are using is called "Argile" which is most used for health
reason. It is even sold in Pharmacies in power form (Product of
France. People do facials with it, use it skin problem and of course
they eat it too as you can see.

This practice is not a result of the food shortages in Haiti.

This is just an FYI.

Peace

[Serial_Worrier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/ju ... evelopment

"It is not for the taste and nutrition - smidgins of salt and margarine do not disguise what is essentially dirt, and the Guardian can testify that the aftertaste lingers - but because they are the cheapest and increasingly only way to fill bellies."

Coming to a grocer soon....

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '
')Coming to a grocer soon....

[Ache]

Haiti, an eroded nation with less than 2 percent tree cover, remains at risk unless environmental damage is healed.

[mos6507]

Easter Island for the 21st century which we can watch die in realtime.

[Fishman]

The environment is going to take a hit with this economic crisis also. Hard to institute cap and trade or the like if people are screaming for jobs.

[dohboi]

There is a very dramatic line across that island that speaks volumes, visible from space.

Most of the most worst economic and politically chaotic places in the world are places that had been ecologically destroyed--Darfur, Somalia, Haiti...

Many more will follow soon.

[Rod_Cloutier]

Haiti can to be taken to be an example of the worlds worst current man made enviromental disaster site. The country is so poor, deforested, and polluted that this country stands as the ultimate worst case senario for what mankind can do to the Earth. A recent article below says people have become so desperate for fuel that they are even cutting down fruit bearing trees for firewood- as an ultimate and suicidal race to the bottom occurs:

http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies/aldrin

However, even with the current state of the World; the financial meltdown, climate change, over-population and pollution ect., most of the world is not like Haiti. It would take additional decades of bad choices and diasters for most of the world to resemble the current condition of Haiti. Hopefully that situation will not happen. So even with all the current world troubles we can still thank that most of the world is in better condition than Haiti- and count our blessings!

[cipi604]

Remember easter island? Ok .

They got what they deserve.

[Ludi]

So you're saying the Haitians, who were dragged there in chains as slaves, deserve their fate.

Ok.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o you're saying the Haitians, who were dragged there in chains as slaves, deserve their fate.

Ok.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o you're saying the Haitians, who were dragged there in chains as slaves, deserve their fate. Ok.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o you're saying the Haitians, who were dragged there in chains as slaves, deserve their fate. Ok.

[Vogelzang]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Repent', 'H')aiti can to be taken to be an example of the worlds worst current man made enviromental disaster site. The country is so poor, deforested, and polluted that this country stands as the ultimate worst case senario for what mankind can do to the Earth. A recent article below says people have become so desperate for fuel that they are even cutting down fruit bearing trees for firewood- as an ultimate and suicidal race to the bottom occurs:

http://www.foei.org/en/who-we-are/testimonies/aldrin

However, even with the current state of the World; the financial meltdown, climate change, over-population and pollution ect., most of the world is not like Haiti. It would take additional decades of bad choices and diasters for most of the world to resemble the current condition of Haiti. Hopefully that situation will not happen. So even with all the current world troubles we can still thank that most of the world is in better condition than Haiti- and count our blessings!